SURROGATE

surrogate

Noun

  1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
  2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
  3. A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  4. : A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
  5. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
  6. Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Verb

  1. To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

Adjective

  1. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.


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